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Remembering Black Monday

…two sets of agents were identified. One was fundamentalists whose behavior is stabilizing and tends to push the market back toward its fundamental (assuming there really is such a thing),…

Let’s Make a Deal

…which we should use Bayes formula and don’t always include strong assumptions about the data generating process (and Monte Hall US citizen, human being and free and equal agent was…

Hannity as Goebbels

…a former British MI6 agent who focused on Russia, and long accepted by all US intel agencies as a reliable source from our supposedly closest ally (aside from possibly now…